Britain Must Not Be Dragged Back into the EU Single Market
Britain is on notice for a historic betrayal
The Prime Minister has now openly admitted that he is prepared to align the UK even more closely with the European Union — including the EU Single Market — if he deems it to be in the so-called “national interest”.
For millions of Britons, that statement alone should set alarm bells ringing.
This is a government filled to the brim with remainers. Keir Starmer and much of his Cabinet not only campaigned to keep Britain in the EU during the 2016 referendum, but then spent years attempting to delay, dilute, or overturn the democratic will of 17.4 million voters. Now, with the Prime Minister talking about “multiple ways” to move Britain closer to the EU, many voters will rightly fear that a full-blown betrayal of Brexit is edging ever closer.
Single Market Membership Means Freedom of Movement
Rejoining the EU Single Market is not a technical tweak or a harmless trade adjustment. It comes with hard political conditions. One of the EU’s so-called “four freedoms” — and a non-negotiable requirement of Single Market participation — is freedom of movement.
That would mean accepting unrestricted migration from all EU member states.
Such a move would represent a historic betrayal of the 2016 referendum result. It would also directly break Labour’s own election pledge that there would be no return to freedom of movement. Yet the warning signs are already there. Labour’s uncapped proposals for a UK-EU youth mobility scheme could potentially allow up to 80 million Europeans to qualify for British visas. That figure could rise to 150 million if EU candidate countries, such as Albania, are admitted to the bloc.
This is not border control — it is border surrender by stealth.
Shackling Britain to a Failing Economic Model
Rejoining the Single Market would also shackle the UK to an economic model that is visibly failing. Germany, the engine of the EU economy, is mired in a multi-year slowdown. France has cycled through five prime ministers in just two years, underscoring deep political instability at the heart of the bloc.
Tying Britain’s future to this stagnation would be both economic and political suicide. It would mean importing regulation, judicial oversight, and policy constraints that Britain voted explicitly to leave behind — all while surrendering the flexibility needed to compete globally.
Democracy Must Be Respected
Reform UK stand ready and willing to hold this euro-obsessed government to account. Brexit was not a suggestion. It was a clear democratic instruction. The British people did not vote to “sort of leave”, nor did they vote to be quietly nudged back under EU control through the back door.
The public deserve honesty, sovereignty, and respect for their vote — not managed decline dressed up as pragmatism. Britain’s future should be decided in Britain, by the British people, not outsourced once again to Brussels.